Microsoft’s Wunderlist gets Smart Due Dates, deleted list restoring, Android widget redesign

Task management tool Wunderlist, recently acquired by Microsoft, today announced some nifty new features. For one thing, now when you mention a date as you type out a new task, Wunderlist automatically sets the correct due date for it.

“In a nutshell, Smart Due Dates detect words like ‘today,’ ‘Monday,’ ‘next week,’ etc. as you type, and then saves you time by automatically adding a Due Date to your to-do,” Wunderlist said in a blog post on the updates. The new feature is live in Wunderlist’s web app, as well as its Windows 7 and Chrome apps. And it’s already part of the Quick Add function in Wunderlist’s iPhone app. I was able to get the feature working on the web.

It’s reminiscent of some of the automatic work that Google does for you in Google Calendar — when you add a location in the name of an event in that application, it automatically populates the location field for the event.

Wunderlist is also adding a way to quickly see how many of your tasks are overdue on each list. And now you can easily bring up lists you’ve deleted in the past 30 days, by visiting the URL https://www.wunderlist.com/restore.

Wunderlist has also revamped its Android widget. “It’s now easier to switch which list is shown on the widget, see which Folder the list belongs to, and best of all, you can add a new to-do without having to open the app by tapping the built-in plus button,” Wunderlist wrote in the blog post.

All these changes can help Wunderlist further stand out among the many task management apps available today and attract new users, not just keep existing ones. Wunderlist had more than 13 million users as of last month.